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As of the latest update, the Carr wildfire has now destroyed 1,060 residential properties, 19 commercial properties and 474 farm buildings, outbuildings and the like (which can often also be insured).

Progress on the River Fire has gained ground as responders reached 58 percent containment on the 48,000-acre blaze.

Nearly 3,500 personnel, alongside 419 fire engines and 15 helicopters, have taken part of the firefighting efforts.

"We pretty much lost everything", said Smith, 77, who has lived in the neighborhood with her 80-year-old husband for 29 years.

The cause of the deadly Carr fire has been revealed as a flat tire on a towed trailer.

It killed two people, including a firefighter, and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings before being fully contained on January 12. "Tragedies bring people together".

PG&E Corporation confirmed yesterday that 21-year-old apprentice lineman, Jay Ayeta, died when his vehicle crashed in western Shasta County as he worked with crews in risky terrain to battle the almost two-week-old Carr Fire.

About two-thirds the size of Los Angeles, the fires are scorching earth about 130km north of San Francisco, and have forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 people.

Sheriffs said all three men were arrested for interfering with Firefighters During a Fire Operation and Unauthorized Person in an Evacuation Area and released with a citation.

After visiting some of the fire-ravaged areas on Saturday, California Gov.

Two firefighters have been killed there since a fire erupted just west of Yosemite in the Sierra National Forest.

After years of drought and a summer of record-breaking heat, huge tracts of forests, chaparral and grasslands have become tinder that allows even a small spark to explode into a devouring blaze, authorities said.

Fire whirls, also know as fire tornadoes or fire devils, often erupt of large wildfires and footage which has emerged of the Carr Fire shows the cyclone of flames ripping through a town in the USA state yesterday.

"I can remember a couple of years ago when we saw 10 to 12,000 firefighters in the states of California, Oregon and Washington and never the 14,000 we see now", he said.

Firefighters battling blazes throughout Northern California had some success keeping flames away from heavily populated areas Thursday and made progress containing a blaze that already destroyed more than 1,000 homes.

Dykema said wildfires typically create whirls, but rarely of the strength of the one recorded July 26.